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Saturday, September 22, 2007
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MTV will premiere the new video for "Good Enough" on TRL Monday September 10th and Amy Lee will be there to make the introduction! Tune in to check it out, or see below for TRL ticket info. Don't forget to vote for the video on MTV.com to keep it on the countdown!
"Good Enough" will also be featured as an "Unleashed" premiere on MTV2 Monday, September 10th.
Any fans who would like to come to TRL on Monday, September 10th must be available to be at the MTV studios in Times Square (45th and Broadway) at 1:30pm. To request tickets email the following info to trlcasting@mtvstaff.com with "Amy Lee" in the subject: Name: Age: Location: Phone: Email: Number of tickets:
From SonicCathedral.com Present - Jason Levine (SC), Amy Lee (Vocals) of Evanescence Interview performed at PNC Bank Arts Center Holmdel, NJ August 8, 2007
Jason: It's been almost a year since the album came out. How have things been going both with the album and on the road?
Amy: Awesome. We've been all over the world. We've been to all six inhabited continents since then. We went to Europe, South Africa, South America, Scandinavia, Middle East, all over the place. It's been really great everywhere. It's been cool to tour so many places again and some new places too. The shows have been well received and big and it's been great. Almost like we never left. (...)
Jason: In the US you have done a couple of headline tours in support of The Open Door. Do you plan to do a bigger arena tour after the Family Values tour ends?
Amy: Uh huh. Yeah. This would have been the time for us to do the bigger tour I've been talking about, but then the Family Values thing came up and we thought that it would be cool to do something with a lot of other bands during the summer time. It's festival season. I don't know. More bang for your buck. Besides Korn's amazing and there's a lot of other great bands on the bill. It's better this way because instead of doing two of our own tours right in a row. We can just do this and then have something different at the end of the year.
Jason: Speaking Korn, you did the duet of Freak On A Leash with them recently. You also play a lot of cover songs in concert as well. Would you think about a cover album or putting a cover onto the next album?
Amy: I don't think we've done that many covers. We actually hadn't been playing a cover the whole time we've been touing The Open Door until like two weeks ago. We started playing People Are Strange just for fun to change it up on the Family Values tour. No, I don't think I would do a covers album at all. I think it would be cool one day to maybe put out a b-sides and rarities, because I think there's a lot of songs that we've made that either didn't quite make the cut or didn't fit on the album for whatever reason. I don't know. Some day that could be really interesting. I always love when bands put out b-sides and rarities. Sometimes it's my favorite CD.
Jason: Yeah.
Amy: Because it's interesting.
Jason: And you get all the live and other songs that you can't put on a regular album.
Amy: Yeah. Totally.
Jason: How has it been going with the new band members?
Amy: Incredible. It's been really great. Troy and Will are very, very talented musicians. I want to only say the positive things about them. I want to be nice. (laughs) They're really, really great and it's given us a lot of ability. I've felt like we were kind of trapped before, because things kind of got to a stagnant point. Like when nothing was moving forward it was kind of like just barely getting through every show. There was some misery in the band and John and Rocky just didn't want to be doing it anymore. So it was really frustrating for the rest of us, because we love the band and love the new songs and want to be here rocking out in front of thousands of people. I mean, how can you not? So it's really cool to have not only two very talented guys in band, but also two people that really appreciate and love this music and this band. So we're having a lot of fun. We get along and we play scrabble together. We're going camping tonight. So it's been a really good time. It feels like a breath of fresh air.
Jason: You have a good collaboration with Terry already. Do you plan to collaborate more with everyone in the band now?
Amy: I don't know. I don't want to jinx myself and say that again, because I said that before The Open Door and that didn't work. So you never know how it's going to be writing with people. We've successfully been able to make up little pieces here and there. Segways into other songs. I mean it just comes naturally for us. We're all pretty open minded and creative and we sort of think on the same page and like the same bands. So I can easily see us all writing together, yes. But there's no plan, just because by the time we finish not this tour but the one after that we were talking about. We're just gonna take some good time off for I don't know. Indefinitely. Until we figure out the next thing to do. So we'll see.
Jason: With The Open Door you had a lot of issues you brought out during it about your relationship with Shaun. Now that you're married and happier, can we expect a different style or different lyrics in your newer writing?
Amy: You can always expect a different style. I never want to put out the same record twice. I always want to be reinventing myself and pushing myself to the new limit. But as far as writing happy songs and putting out a Sarah McLachlan record. It's just not really me. I want to be doing something different, but I also still want it to be interesting and unique and challenging. I don't know. I like giving people the exact opposite of what they think they expect. (laughs) So we'll see. Maybe I'll just put out a clarinet record or something. (laughs) A whistling choir.
Jason: I understand there are talks of going solo down the road?
Amy: No. Its a rumor. My contract is like eternal. (laughs)
Jason: Have you thought about working with Wind-Up on something solo in addition to the Evanescence work, following such other frontwomen as Gwen Stefani and Fergie by releasing a solo album?
Amy: That's not me. I definitely think I could work by myself on something, but it wouldn't be in this music world. It wouldn't be in this sense of touring. I don't know. It would be completely different. Everything that I want to do as a rock musician I get to do with Evanescence. If I was ever to do something on my own or with different people, it would be because it was completely different. Such as I really have always wanted to get into scoring. I would love to score a film and I'm gonna try to do something completely different than Evanescence along those lines at some point. So there's that, but I don't know if that counts as being a solo artist. Definitely not in the sense that Fergie or Gwen Stefani are solo artists. I'm not really interested in that.
Jason: So more of using your piano skills to work on something?
Amy: Hopefully that and lot more. Hopefully a whole symphony. So we'll see.
Jason: That would be kind of cool.
Amy: Yeah.
Jason: We've been seeing a lot more female fronted bands come over to America this year. Your band has paved the way so all of these bands can come over from Europe. Revolver just put on a female metal tour. Where do you see yourself in the female scene and how you fit in?
Amy: I don't know really how to answer that. I don't really look at it like it's a whole different genre because I'm a girl. I think that is something that I've always felt was an advantage for us because we had something different than most of the bands out there. It's cool to be on this bill and be one of two females total, because it changes it up and there's something that we have that they don't which is just this sort of passionate femininity. So it's cool to have that. I've always looked at it as a positive thing. But I don't know where I stand and all that stuff.
Jason: Would you tour with other female bands?
Amy: Absolutely. I would love to. How cool would that be. I definitely have always had a lot of female artists that I love and admire. A lot of them are older now or are in a completely different style of music so I don't know how the tour would work. (laughs) I think we'd be the heaviest band on the bill for sure.
Jason: Sort of like a Lillith Fair but for heavier bands?
Amy: That would be really fun. Yes.
Jason: So with your influence in the industry you can get something like that put together.
Amy: You gotta help me put that together. I don't know if it's possible. I don't even know who I would grab. But yeah, I would love to have a chick tour. But then how would the guys in the band feel? They'd be like "OK, but I'm a dude. Don't forget me". I don't know. There's more to it than that.
Jason: When you're done with this touring cycle are you planning to go right back into the studio?
Amy: No. I really don't want to do that. Even less than last time. Last time I was exhausted after touring. A lot more than we will be this time, because we were just being driven into the ground. But even still after just like one month I was so motivated. So many things had happened that affected me personally and I finally had the freedom to really write whatever I wanted, that I was just dying to write the new record. We just spent a long time on it. This time I'm definitely musically inspired and want to work, but I don't want to go right back into doing the exact same thing. I think I'm just going to take it easy. I just got married three months ago. Take a break. Be normal. Buy groceries. Go to the movies. You know.
Jason: Has your marriage changed your attitude or views on life?
Amy: Um yeah. Absolutely. I don't know. You get a better perspective on what's the most important and it's not all about you and I think that's actually a big relief. It's a lot less pressure as far as messing up and the career is concerned. I think I was already starting to get that perspective anyway, but it just helps make it even clearer when it's not all about you all the time. So I like it. (laughs)
Jason: And how has the change been in terms of moving to New York. Do you plan to stay there?
Amy: Yeah, I love it there. I don't know what to say. I absolutely love it there. I haven't gotten to spend a ton of time there, because we've been just touring pretty much almost the whole time I've lived there. But it's a lot more me than Los Angeles. I lived in California for five years. Again I'm not there very much. And yeah, it was alright, but definitely not my personality. I'm laid back and everything, but it's a lot about who you know and the whole Hollywood thing. And I just. I don't fit into that at all. I'm just the girl in the corner wishing I could go home. (laughs) So it's a lot cooler to be in New York where there are so many different cultures and music and art and just people from all over the world. It's actually really cool and everybody has something that they think is a lot more important going on than looking at you. So I can completely blend in. Just walk down the street and be normal.
Jason: You said you wanted to do different things for the new album. What kind of direction do you see taking the band?
Amy: It's hard to say right now. I don't know. We'll just have to wait to be inspired to know what's really going on. It's going to be hard to say, because we don't write on tour. We actually. It's so much of this stuff that I have to wait until I'm done to zone out and be a writer. We'll see.
Jason: You've been doing a lot of meet and greets and other fan activities. How do you react to your fans and how do you feel about them?
Amy: I love the fans. How can you not love them. They are nothing but cool to us and they've supported us. Everytime I ask them for anything they do it. The first couple of Korn shows were OK and the fan response kind of sucked. Not that they were negative to us. They just weren't doing anything. I know our fans are out there, but I almost feel like they were intimidated by the Korn fans and didn't want to get too excited. So I talked to a couple of the fan club members when they came to the show. I was like "Hey. By the way. Go on the message board and tell everybody if you're an Evanescence fan then represent, because we need you out there and make some noise" and they were like "OK". Next show was like a completely different world and it's been cool ever since. So we definitely have a rad following and I have nothing but love for our fans.
Jason: A lot of those fans consider you an idol. How does it feel to know all of those girls look up to you and what you have done to show that women can succeed in an industry dominated my men?
Amy: Um. That's a lot of pressure. (laughs) I am a big sister and I just feel like I look at our fans and I see my younger siblings. I love em. I'm not perfect, you know. But I will do my best to try to be a good example for them and hopefully leave them to think for themselves. I think that's the most important thing. I don't know. I guess that's the end of my answer.
Jason: If you had one message to get out for people who didn't know Amy Lee, what would the message be?
Amy: Um. It's so hard to explain yourself in one sentence. I don't know what people think of me. It's hard to understand what the perception of you really is. I guess you just have to come to the show to get a better idea. (laughs) I don't know. I'm a nice person and I love food and music and having a good time and people and I don't know. You gotta know what people think about you to know what to tell them that's different. Sorry. Not a good answer at all. It's gonna be unprintable. (laughs)
Jason: How is the interaction while playing to your fans at the shows?
Amy: It's great. Honestly we've played our songs a million times and if I was at home doing nothing, bored on a Saturday, I don't think I would blast my own CD. I've heard it. (laughs) But to get up there in front of the fans and actually have their energy and their excitement about Evanescence music makes playing the songs incredible. I love playing our music for them. It's like it is the first time. You get lost in it to the point where you almost forget what's coming. So it's a completely different experience and I love it. There's always, especially at these shows, there are always fans in the front. But there are sections. Either the left or the right or somewhere in the middle. Every night there is this one group of kids that are just freaking out. So that can be my comfort zone that every time I start to feel a little insecure I just keep going back to that spot. Drawing from them.
Jason: Are there any songs you are sick of playing or songs you really enjoy playing every night?
Amy: I love our whole set right now. We honestly have been changing it a little bit here and there for the past few months. Doing some new things. Doing some things we haven't done in a long time. It's cool. No. There's nothing that we play every night that I don't like.
Jason: What does the future hold for you?
Amy: For me?
Jason: Yeah.
Amy: You never know. There's always going to be music in it. For sure. It's my passion. But I plan on being happily married. Trying to do something new musically. I don't want to just go back into doing the same old thing like I said. I guess these are all answer I have already given. But I don't know. Maybe start taking lessons on a new instrument and just kind of educate myself a little bit in the time off. Then come up with something totally weird. Change everybody's mind again.
EVANESCENCE'S AMY LEE ROLLS WITH THE (MANY) CHANGES Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 08/5/07
BY ED CONDRAN CORRESPONDENT
Amy Lee is a survivor. The soaring voice behind the melancholy rock band Evanescence excels when dealing with adversity.
After the band completed its 2004 tour behind its breakthrough disc, "Fallen," guitarist Ben Moody, who co-wrote with Lee, left Evanescence.
"He (Moody) was right there with me when we formed but some things have to end," Lee said while calling from Boston. "That's life."
The following year, Lee broke up with her troubled boyfriend Shaun Morgan of Seether.
"Some relationships, personal or professional, aren't meant to be," she said. "You have to let some ships sail, especially if they're bad for you."
Lee slaps Morgan with the catchy "Call Me When You're Sober," which appears on Evanescence's latest album, "The Open Door." Much of the angst-ridden material, which was co-written by guitarist Terry Balsamo (who suffered a stroke in November 2005), is as dramatic as Lee's soap-opera-esque existence.
In early May, guitarist John LeCompt was fired and drummer Rocky Gray quit. However, the resourceful and fiery Lee hired Dark New Day guitarist Troy McLawhorn and drummer Will Hunt so Evanescence could co-headline the Family Values tour with Korn, which stops Wednesday at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel.
Lee plugged the holes the same weekend she married therapist Josh Hartzler.
"Some people say a woman can only focus on her wedding," she said. "It was easy for me to handle since there were issues with John and Rocky that were building. We were fortunate to add Troy and Will to the band. We're feeling a lot healthier. It's made the shows a lot better because everyone is enjoying playing the music."
Evanescence thought about embarking on a summer tour headlining amphitheaters but opted to join the Family Values tour and go on its own jaunt in autumn.
"I think that being able to be part of a festival with a lot of other good bands is a good thing," Lee said. "It's fun. It's the whole summer vibe. A lot of different things can happen on a tour like this."
Collaborations are possible, and that excites Lee.
"People keep asking if I'm going to do the acoustic version of (Korn's) "Freak on a Leash,' " Lee said. "Nothing has happened yet, but something could happen. Obviously that's up to Korn. If they ask me, I'm totally willing. I love Korn. I think they're awesome. It's really cool to be onstage with people that you admire so much and that inspire you."
Lee is looking forward to recording the next Evanescence album. She's hoping that McLawhorn and Hunt will be part of the team but isn't sure what will happen because of their Dark New Day responsibilities.
"Troy and Will are both very passionate and creative," Lee said. "We are creative with the music that's already there, and I think there's definitely potential for us to write together at some point. I don't want to get in the way of what they want to do with Dark New Day because I really admire and respect that band. I would write with both of them."
But if Lee has to replace them, count on her to keep her group alive.
"I've been really good at keeping this band going," Lee said. "I've done what I've had to do."
MANSFIELD -- When it comes to the "Family Values Tour" it's good to have strong parental figures. Article Tools ____________
Friday night Jonathan Davis of Korn and Amy Lee of Evanescence ably presided over the Tweeter Center as twisted patriarch and matriarch of the long-running metal fest.
Although light is clearly not a friend, Evanescence managed to bring its brand of grandiose gloom to life before sunset with a sharp 65-minute set that earned the grudging respect of the metal faithful.
With one of the most tensile voices and widest ranges in rock, whirling frontwoman Lee meshed sound and vision with ceaseless energy. If some of the songs too closely resembled one another -- thanks to similar patterns of attack-dog guitar and chugging grooves -- Lee's passion put the tunes over. "Call Me When You're Sober" was a seething highpoint, with Lee heaving and hurling her bitterness like so much china at a betrayer's head.
While there was some halfhearted crowd-surfing in the stage-front pit for Evanescence, this was clearly Korn's crowd. The Southern California nu-metallurgists may no longer enjoy the heat of their '90s heyday -- the venue was about three-quarters full -- but no one can accuse them of mailing it in.
If Lee's presence was electric, Davis and his headbanging, stage-roaming, wildly grinning compadres were downright manic. Clad in a black kilt and sleeveless T-shirt, the gaunt frontman wheeled around uncontrollably, barking, screaming -- and occasionally taking oxygen breaks -- during a taut 90-minute set.
On a bleak industrial stage, featuring bare scaffolding and a wall of lights, songs like the stomping opener "Here to Stay" and the tremor-inducing "Dead Bodies Everywhere" featured all of the creeping unease, innard-rearranging bass-drum punishment, and intricately mannered Davis psychosis fans have come to know and be freaked out by.
The boundary between catharsis and cacophony was breached several times but never irreparably. A cover of Pink Floyd's "Another Brick in the Wall" (parts 1 and 3) was epic, and closers "Freak on a Leash" and "Blind" brought Davis to the straitjacket edge.
A major traffic jam prevented seeing any of the bands on the substantial undercard.
July 25, 2007 3:39 pm — Hard-rock songstress Amy Lee can't seem to hang on to a guy.
Since releasing the debut album, Fallen in 2003, Lee's band Evanescence has gone through more men than the Batman movie costume.
In total, five dudes have left the band, including Lee's writing partner Ben Moody, who departed just seven months after Fallen's release. Even current guitarist Troy McLawhorn and drummer Will Hunt are merely listed as temporary fill-ins for the Family Values Tour, which pulls into Darien Lake on Friday, Aug. 3.
It doesn't seem to matter though, as Evanescence shows no signs of fading. With Lee as its Wonder Woman, the group has sold more than 19 million records worldwide.
In September 2006, Lee and company released the album Open Door. It debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart and has sold more than 1.7 million copies in the United States.
As far as man issues go, Lee has recently taken steps to make sure her personal life doesn't mirror the soap opera that has been Evanescence. In May 2007, she married longtime friend/boyfriend Josh Hartzler.
Insider recently took part in a teleprint conference (a press conference over the phone with multiple journalists), during which Lee touched on several subjects including her wedding, spirituality and — yeeeeooooooooow! — Kelly Clarkson.
On co-headlining the Family Values Tour with Korn:
I loved them when I was younger. I remember going, I think, to Family Values a long, long time ago when I was probably 17 or something. I just don't see the downside. It's really cool to be onstage with people that you admire so much and inspire you.
The worst thing about being on a tour bus:
Being the only girl on the bus most of the time usually means there's pee all over the floor and on the seats. That's pretty miserable. So I'm basically the cleaning lady.
What she's listening to:
I just got married, so I'm listening to John Mayer a lot. I guess I'm feeling like I'm getting older and sappy. I love Tori Amos, I always have. I love Depeche Mode. I love Korn and Nine Inch Nails. I love Soundgarden so much. Why don't they get back together?
On keeping in touch with ex-boyfriends:
I think keeping in touch with the exes is really hard, and if you can make it work, there's probably something going on that shouldn't be going on.
On critics comparing Kelly Clarkson's new album to Evanescence:
I've heard the single, but that's it. ... I'm not a person who has Kelly Clarkson CDs in my collection, but I never want to just look at somebody, judge them and say, 'OK, I'm not going to buy your CD.'
On her wedding:
It was really small. (We) hung out with family and listened to music and had a little champagne.
On the current state of the music industry:
I think it's a little confused. I don't think rock is dead or anything like that, I just think that we're definitely going through a weird period with the Internet.
Korn aren’t the only band in the spotlight on this summer’s Family Values tour: the mostly metal and male-dominated line-up has undergone a gender makeover with the addition of the Amy Lee–fronted Evanescence at the top of the bill. Lee has emerged as a potent presence in the wake of Evanescence’s Grammy-winning 2003 album Fallen (Wind-up), wresting control of the band from guitarist/co-founder Ben Moody and, just this past May, handing guitarist John LeCompt and drummer Rocky Gray their walking papers. But that hasn’t stopped Evanescence from moving five million copies of their latest album, last year’s The Open Door (Wind-up), worldwide. We spoke to the recently married Lee about touring, her marriage, and the state of music today. Here’s some of what she had to say.
Do you remember some of the original inspirations for Evanescence? When I was growing up and when I was formulating ideas for Evanescence, I was obsessed with the Baz Luhrmann version of Romeo + Juliet — not just the soundtrack though, something about the movie. Back then, Tim Burton and Danny Elfman movies were huge. I would just listen to the scores. At the same time, I loved Soundgarden, Depeche Mode, Björk, Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins. There was so much music that, to me, was so good. I guess I still listen to more music from back then.
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How Do You Feel About the State of music today? I think it’s a little confused. I don’t think rock is dead or anything like that; I just think we’re going through a weird period with the Internet. A lot of bands are struggling. Luckily, a lot of new bands that you would never hear are coming through. If you have the time and if you know what you’re doing, you can use the Internet and go to MySpace and search for bands that don’t have record deals. That’s really cool. At the same time, I think labels are pushing signed artists to do things more and more that they wouldn’t want to do — to put out less music and water it down because they’re so afraid of losing money. So I don’t know. I don’t have a ton of bands that are brand new that I absolutely love right now. I love Muse — we’ve been listening to them a ton backstage lately. They’re not that new, but I think they’re incredible.
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What kind of music did you have at your wedding? It was actually just two guys playing guitar and singing. They kind of sang half the time — mostly it was just guitar. It was like from Pink Floyd to Coldplay, really eclectic. My dad’s a musician; he plays a billion different instruments. So he found these guys and I don’t know what he told them. I was scared too because we got married in Arkansas and he got a band that lives there and I was really afraid. But it turned out great.
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You’ve made it clear with the changes you’ve made in the band that you’re in charge. Is that DIFFICULT as a woman? I don’t know it any other way. I don’t feel like I get treated badly or anything. Being a girl, I don’t feel like I can’t be a good leader.But as far as getting respect from the public as a writer, that was the hard part for me. I feel like I’ve gotten it now, but for a long time it was a tough fight. With Ben [Moody], when he was in the band, it was very important to him for some reason to prove to everyone that I wasn’t doing anything — that I was just up there singing and there was some mastermind guy behind the whole thing. So by the time he left the band and we made another record, and it was really good, we sort of proved everything he said wrong. That changed things for us — the proof is in the pudding.
